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Tom Bearden Tips on Building HJ Motor
From: "Karl" <krlbrgmnn @mailandnews.com>
(delete space before @) Sterling, Just a quick note to let you know I spoke to Tom Bearden today and, regarding the statement on your webpage by your "anonymous source" who said "Howard Johnson never was able to get the rotary version to work. He was only able to get the linear version working, and there were some questions about its viability.", Tom said such a person doesn't know what they are talking about. I'd say Tom is in the best position to know, since he and Howard have been friends for decades and Howard has personally brought a functional, rotary PMM to Tom's house, and they've played with it for hours. Next to Howard himself, I'd consider Tom to be the best resource on the subject of HJ's PMM. He also said that Howard is still working on getting another functioning unit constructed (he's had numerous setbacks over the years after his working unit was vandalized by thieves that broke into Howard's shop and stole only the magnets off that model, leaving many $K worth of other material nearby untouched). Howard is still plugging away every day, at over 70 years old, but his wife's health problems are keeping him busy. However, he has gotten hooked up with a respectable, honest businessman who is financing him and Howard also now has some younger help to do the grunt work that is becoming tougher for him. All in all, Tom hopes to see some real progress being made for Howard in the next year or so. Tom mentioned that there are a few critical things that anyone who wants to successfully build a working HJ PMM needs to know, some of which are probably obvious to the more experienced builders: 1) The most critical element is the precise machining of the magnets. Joe Q. Public, with his diamond saw, cutting his own magnets by hand has little chance of succeeding in shaping the magnets to the aerospace-critical specs that are the minimum necessary, much less duplicating that feat several times for each necessary part. 2) Alignment of the parts is highly important too. One slight misalignment and the motor will not run continuously. 3) All magnets aren't the same. This application requires expensive, extremely high quality magnets. Howard, in order to get them cheaper, was buying them in $50K lots from China, where high quality and a lower price can be had. I also spoke with a gentleman named Gary Hanson who had been in touch with Howard years ago when Gary was trying to build Howard's motor. Howard told him, as I think most researchers on this know now, that the motor *can* be build directly from the patent but that there needs to be 5 or 6 armtures and not just the one that is shown as an illustration in the patent. Just want to make sure any newbies understand this. I hope some of this has helped clear up any misunderstandings for those of us interested in building a functional HJ PMM. My opinion is that, if you want to do it right, go to the horse's mouth (Howard) or else as close as you can possibly get (Tom). Hopefully, doing so will enable us to make this motor a reality. Regards, Karl Permission to PostFrom: "Karl" <krlbrgmnn @mailandnews.com>
(delete space before @) Sterling, Glad I could be of some small help. I think that anything I've said here can be posted. I think Tom would agree with that. Thank you for the courtesy of checking with me. I probably should have extended Tom the same courtesy prior to disclosing elements of our conversation but I don't believe we discussed anything today that wasn't meant for public ears. One more thing - Tom said that he can act as a LIMITED go-between if any serious researcher has SERIOUS questions for Howard that they've already diligently tried to resolve for themselves. Lately, however, Tom said he has limited his calls to Howard out of consideration for Howard's situation. Again, both Tom and Howard are veritable fonts of knowledge on this and both could probably provide extremely enlightening answers on *any* topic related to constructing an HJ motor. As you may know, Tom has already written extensively on various aspects of OU/FE, much of which can be found on the Net, and is eminently qualified to discuss a wide range of subjects from engineering to physics. In Stephen's absence, these are the only go-to people I know of. Just let me know if I can be of assistance in any further way. Karl See also
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